Membranes

Describe the contribution of passive electrical properties of membranes, to propagation of Action Potential along the myelinated axons. I know how action potential is generated, what myelinated axons are, but I am just confused about the active and passive ...

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... serve a myriad of functions, including structural roles (cytoskeleton), as catalysts (enzymes), transporter to ferry ions and molecules across membranes, and hormones to name just a few. With few exceptions, biotechnology is about understanding, modifying and ultimately exploiting proteins ...

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... It is an ancient, several billion years ago the development of brilliant engineering. Engineers - "active models the situation in lipid membranes". Thus, the question of the origin of life, it is a question of the origin of those ancient membrane-engineers! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=364404846962684&set=a.364404780296024.79961.100001795141602&type=1&theater

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... hydrogen levels. into something like: but uses (better avoid this verb) the energy released during redox reactions taking place iin mitochondria membranes to transport hydrogen cations through the membrane. And of course the hydrogen ions do not diffuse through membrane, but are transported (well, ...

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Just asking people to check my work please, not asking anyone to do my homework ----Membranes play a huge role in the synthesis of ATP in the mitochondria, the power house of the cell. Mitochondria are composed of two separate membranes, an outer and an inner membrane. ...

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